Train Collision in Tunnel Kills Dozens Near Soissons
In a fatal tunnel crash near Vierzy France two speeding trains collided causing a debris strewn wreck. About 500 aboard were in danger as 35 bodies were recovered and 78 injured. Firefighters police and Red Cross workers labored through the night while one train lay atop rock and cement from a ceiling collapse.
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Paris
Red Cross
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Laon
Paris-Laon
Cave in claims life of Milwaukee area worker
AP reports a 38 year old construction worker from rural Kewaskum named John Bruessel died after a five foot ditch cave in on Friday. He suffered internal injuries as six sections of excavation collapsed.
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Dairy Cattle Show Draws About 200 Entries at Monticello
About 200 head of cattle are expected for the Dairy Cattle Show at the Ball Park on Saturday June 24 in Monticello. Doors open for registration by 9 am with judging to start at 9 30 am. Richard Smith is show chairman and ten trophies will be awarded across Holstein and Brown Swiss classes plus showmanship. Judges are Terry Howard and Dave Viney. Trophies are on display at the Bank of Monticello.
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Monticello
Richard Smith
Rt. 4
Olea
Terry Howard
Dave Viney
Bank of Monticello
New Glarus Dairy Queen crowned at Swiss Church event
Eugene Dahlk, daughter of dairy farmers near New Glarus, was crowned New Glarus Dairy Queen Friday night. Runners-up were Dee Roth, Robert Roth, and Diane Elmer. Crowning took place during an ice cream social on the Swiss Church lawn.
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Leo Sarbacker
Carol Durtschi
Green County
Sarbacker
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Lawrence Dunphy
Rt. 1
Jolene Spring
Glen Spring
Harold Babler
Monticello
Dennis Davis
Juda
Robert Wolfe
Brodhead
Larbacker
Albany High School
Dan Dee Nursery
AHS
Wayne Albertson Jr
Bradley Binder
Wayne Albertson Sr
Cochairman
Gale Goehlke
Krause
Alavilla 4-H
Times
Helen E. Zimmerli
New Glarus
Eugene Dahlk
Dee Roth
Robert Roth
Diane Elmer
Earl Elmer
Irving faces two year term for Hughes autobiography plot
Clifford Irving begins a two year prison sentence on August 28 for forging a Howard Hughes autobiography. Edith Irving must serve two months. both fined ten thousand dollars. Judge Cannella urged mercy in a high profile case.
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New York
Clifford Irving
Howard Hughes
Irving
Edith
U. S. District
John M. Cannella
Cannella
Irvings
Mother's Day to Father's Day Origin Story in Spokane
Mrs. John Bruce Dodd, now 90, inspired Father's Day after a 1909 Mother’s Day sermon. With Spokane ministers, she pushed for a national observance adopted by Wilson in 1916 and Coolidge in 1924. Her late husband’s son John Bruce Dodd Jr. was later praised as an ideal father. She received the Father of the Year Award Bowl in Spokane, saying she would keep love in the bowl.
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John Bruce Dodd
Dodd
Woodrow Wilson
Calvin Coolidge
John Bruce Dodd Jr
Whitefish
Mont
Washington
Washington Post
Skyjacking Surge Hits Two Dozen Jets This Year
By mid June, at least twenty four commercial jets have been commandeered worldwide. Notable incidents include Jan 20 hijacker John Shane who parachuted from a Hughes Airwest DC9 with a $50,000 ransom. Jan 27 hijacker Heinrich von George with $200,000 and two parachutes. Feb 22 Arabs landing a Lufthansa flight in Aden after a $5 million ransom. April 7 Richard Floyd McCoy Jr. parachuting with $500,000. May 6 a Frontier 737 seized with six parachutes, later tied to a $303,000 ransom. May botched kidnapping by Arab guerrillas in Tel Aviv. and June 8 eleven Czech nationals hijacking a Czechoslovak airliner to West Germany.
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Heinrich von George
Mohawk Airlines
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Aden
Bonn
Richard Floyd McCoy Jr
Provo
Utah
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Honduras
Frederick W. Hahnemann
U.S
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Pennsylvania
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Israel
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